A group of Democratic and Republican senators sent a letter to President Obama demanding answers. They wrote that Congress and the American people need to have a “full understanding of how the executive branch interprets the limits and boundaries of this authority, so that Congress and the public can decide whether the president’s power to deliberately kill American citizens is subject to appropriate limitations and safeguards.”

“We don’t torture terrorists, we just kill them,” Hannity commented. “Obama has gone light-years beyond what the Bush administration did. And by the way, if Bush ever attempted this narrative, these policies, I’m telling you, Democrats would’ve been calling for Bush’s impeachment.”

The Fox News host went on to say, “I’ve observed politics for a long time, but in terms of the sheer depth and breadth of hypocrisy with this story and the actions by Obama and his minions in the press and the Democratic Party, this is about the hardest story to beat.”

Impeach Obama Now Over the "Right" to Kill Americans with Drones, There Will Never be a Better Time

The tone is one of unmistakable arrogance, making it full clear that the head of this administration is not only tone-deaf or out-of-touch, but thoroughly, clinically insane. The signal was the assertion that any American abroad need not even be involved in an active plot to be summarily executed by the king's men.

"Legal...ethical...and wise" said the king's mouthpiece. Wise? Wise? Come hither, plebeian, said the king. Now kneel. Now lean forward toward that small brown pile. Now eat. Now say wise.

“L'État, c'est moi,” said Louis XIV. I need no authority from the state. I need no legal justification for what I do. I am the state. So began the French Revolution.

And if American citizens, born with ancient rights by virtue only of being an American, can be summarily murdered even though they are not involved in an active plot, then obviously they can be summarily murdered even if they are not abroad either. One is as reasonable as the other. Meaning, no reason need be shown at all. We have reached the end.

The outrage is across party lines. It is fresh, it is real. We are stunned. Call on congress to impeach the president, or let the American Spring begin.

On February 4, a secret White House memo was leaked, entitled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force.” The memo in effect states that the President has the authority to kill any American citizen at any time for any reason without proof, without due process, and with absolutely no oversight.

No one blinked an eye when American-born al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was vaporized with a drone strike in September of 2011. But when his sixteen-year-old son, Abdulrahman, an American citizen born in Denver, Colorado, was vaporized in the same manner two weeks later without any proof that he had any connection to al-Qaeda, both the Left and Right cried foul.

Abdulrahman, along with several other teenagers, was engaged in the “terrorist” act of taking part in an outdoor barbecue.

Of course, the next question becomes: If Obama can suspend due process and murder American citizens abroad, does he then have the authority to do the same thing on American soil?

This was the question asked and ignored on the day after the secret memo was released, whereby Obama abruptly left the press conference, leaving White House spokesman Jay Carney flapping in the wind. Carney called Obama’s unchecked power of “surgical drone strikes” “legal, ethical, and wise,” which sounded very pithy, but never answered the question.

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“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”― George W. Bush

If Congress wants to waste time and money impeaching another president then go ahead and get it over with. It was a waste with Clinton and it will be a waste now. But for mercy's sake, don't make us suffer through more than a week's build up and just get it done. I'd rather be force fed Kardashian gossip than look at jowly old men proving that they can pretend to be righteous.

Obama didn't commit murder. The target of the October 14, 2011 airstrike was Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi is believed to be a bystander who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time", stating that "the U.S. government did not know that Mr. Awlaki’s son was there" before the airstrike was ordered.

Manis wrote:Obama didn't commit murder. The target of the October 14, 2011 airstrike was Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi is believed to be a bystander who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time", stating that "the U.S. government did not know that Mr. Awlaki’s son was there" before the airstrike was ordered.

I don't see where "Oops, sorry," can excuse it. Maybe this is a perfect reason to cut out drone warfare because of the innocents mistakenly killed.

You can be executed for capital murder in Alabama if your accomplice in a store robbery is shot and killed by the store owner. The actual reality of who actually pulled the trigger is immaterial. You "didn't commit murder" personally, yourself, but you can sure as heck be forced to forfeit your life because somebody died.

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”― George W. Bush

Manis wrote:Obama didn't commit murder. The target of the October 14, 2011 airstrike was Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi is believed to be a bystander who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time", stating that "the U.S. government did not know that Mr. Awlaki’s son was there" before the airstrike was ordered.

I don't see where "Oops, sorry," can excuse it. Maybe this is a perfect reason to cut out drone warfare because of the innocents mistakenly killed.

You can be executed for capital murder in Alabama if your accomplice in a store robbery is shot and killed by the store owner. The actual reality of who actually pulled the trigger is immaterial. You "didn't commit murder" personally, yourself, but you can sure as heck be forced to forfeit your life because somebody died.

Manis wrote:Obama didn't commit murder. The target of the October 14, 2011 airstrike was Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi is believed to be a bystander who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time", stating that "the U.S. government did not know that Mr. Awlaki’s son was there" before the airstrike was ordered.

I don't see where "Oops, sorry," can excuse it. Maybe this is a perfect reason to cut out drone warfare because of the innocents mistakenly killed.

You can be executed for capital murder in Alabama if your accomplice in a store robbery is shot and killed by the store owner. The actual reality of who actually pulled the trigger is immaterial. You "didn't commit murder" personally, yourself, but you can sure as heck be forced to forfeit your life because somebody died.

You are comparing apples to oranges and your argument is bananas

An oldie but a goodie (a baddie?). I've been reading/watching about Obama's kill list, drones, indefinite detention, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, etc. lately and that quote kept popping into my head. Just thought I'd share it with the DP. It seems like the basic philosophy of politics to me.

Another manufactured crises, courtesy of Faux News, going nowhere. See Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the Clinton impeachment, Whitewater, Vince Foster's "murder", Obama's birthplace, et al. When this one dies down, they will have another waiting in the wings.

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine